I've spent days on this and I need to know whether there's much point in continuing! I'm not even sure this is the right forum...
We're inheriting a web application that uses Apache FOP to dynamically generate PDFs. The site is currently live on the previous development company's server and I can see that it works. For reasons that probably don't require imagination, they don't want to help us move the application very much, and I have the uneviable task of trying to work out the appropriate configuration.
Whilst the code works in VS 2008 dev server, I can't get it to work on Localhost (the PDF isn't created but since the function always returns true the application moves on to say file not found), and on the staging server the application hangs on calling the batch file, and the site has to then be restarted in IIS.
What I do know: 
According to the developer the code requires ...

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